The gigahertz Centro, also known as 'the Palm-powered grenade'
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Dec 24th 2008 10:05PM
posted Dec 24th 2008 10:05PM
[Thanks, Jason]
posted Dec 24th 2008 10:05PM
The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Sweet Jesus.
The blue glow you see emanating behind the Centro is actually liquid nitrogen mixed with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg - Ain't Nuthin But A G Thang.
It's the coolest mixture in the world; just don't step to it without your heater (lolz bad pun).
Say goodbye to any chance of having children....
TCPMP - the most awesomest pocket media player!
0.72RC1, you have served us well
ZOMG and I thought I was a rebel OC'ing my HTC to 260MHz.
is it a t-mobile shadow? I cant seem to get omapclock to download.
allshadow.com
i get this message
"initialization failed
reason:cant map i/o"
wtf
Yes, but this thing only has 64MB RAM.
Reminds me of when I had a PS2 Linux kit. It had 32MB of RAM, making it useless for just about anything. I spent two days compiling KDE, which took about 3 minutes to start up. I remember using an old SPARC station and being amazed at how fast it was.
@Karl: Well, obviously you overclock the ram to atleast 200 mb.
Thus they created a phone that would run so fast that you no longer cared about cell radio brain cancer...
its stuff like this that is leading to global warming. I bet Al Gore would be furious at this.
Are you serial???
Or cereal, you know, whatever floats your boat
ya, im cereal.
I'm super cereal guys!
nah! it'd be a new source of energy to fly his private plane to his $3,000-a-month-electric-bill house of his!
Well, his bill is so high because he has this giant 50-foot billboard that says "STOP GLOBAL WARMING" on his property, so that everyone can see it.
damn. 1999 all over again. except in the PALM OF MY HAND
I see what you did there!!!
"Except in the Palm of my Hand"
So JUST like 1999 when you were single?
Ouch.
I see where you get your name...
You're phone is melting.....no that's just my palm.
That thing must be reaching critical mass say hello to the next Chernobyl .
Is that a black hole forming behind?
Cause overclocking a DS just wasn't hardcore enough.
Funny you mention overclocking a DS, because the DS hasn't been overclocked. When you see anything that talks about Overclocking a DS, it just makes the game run at a faster speed not actually raise the frequency of either of the two ARM CPUs in the DS. It's just a speedhack, not overclocking.
Actually, it is an overclock, but the ds games are synced to the clock speed, so overclocking a ds also speeds the game up.
Hmm.... Drop it in a tub of non-conductive mineral oil so we can bump it to an ACTUAL 1000MHz. :)
hate to burst your bubble there, but it still wouldn't be at a true gigahertz until it reached 1024 MHz. Unless of course you were just aiming for a thousand mega-hertz, in which case you're right on target.
To Matthew C: Yeah, and one kilometers is so 1024 meters.
;)
*kilometer
Jeez this is a pain in the ass.
1024 is the computing Kilo, Mega, Giga etc, because its 2^10, 20 30 etc
1000 is the scientific Kilo, Mega, Giga, and the IEEE decided to cave to manufacturers who wanted to say Kilo at at 1000 so if freely used by computing product manufacturers.
It was all an attempt not to confuse the consumer.
See how unconfused everybody is now IEEE?!?!
Yeah, but you do agree that Hertz (vibrations/calculations per second or whatever) are counted the 'scientific' way? Otherwise I'm going to be really confused :)
One GHz in computer science is the same as in other sciences, i.e. 1 000 000 000 Hz; so the OP is pretty much spot-on, right?
Kimmo is right, the SI prefixes Kilo, Mega, Giga etc. are all exact powers of 10, so 1000MHz = 1GHz because a computers clock speed is literally 'cycles per second' which follows SI units
However, file sizes are measured in base 2, hence 1024KB = 1MB etc. So to distinguish them from the SI units, Kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte etc. are used, because these represent powers of 2 rather than powers of 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Geez, enough with all the writing!
dunno what the big deal is tbh. three years ago i always overclocked my tungsten t3 to 640 mhz. and afaik you couldnt overclock the palms to death, in worst case scenario you would just do a hard reset.
This is probably a glitch in tcpmp... for a real benchmark i would want a benchmark program screenshot like "speedy"
My T3 would reset at 708mHz, and not because of heat.... 936mHz.... I'll believe it when I see it. Anyone up for a $5 bet? :D
so someone broke a centro. great, tell me how i can break mine too because this is just so fantastically useful.
shut up
MacGyver OC's his phone and throws it at the bad guys in their Chrysler Lebaron and it explodes and THE WORLD IS SAVED again.
Is this the newness?
Is this a blog?
Dear sweet lord of all things holy..... that's fast
But the question remains, even with that much power, does the palm platform still stink?
Yes, but not as much as winmo. My 680 will tide me over just fine until I can afford some android hardware.
Unless of course you're putting it down as usual, then you should really try actually using it, it helps to form a more... real opinion.
Please dont mess with Winmob, its a blessing for many of us!
Hmm.
Anything on how they did it?
you can OC a POS as much as you want, it won't make it smell any better....may actually make it worse...
can it run crysis?
LOL